Hacker News: zhainya

New comment by zhainya in "Cursor Camp"

zhainya — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:48:36 +0000

This probably would have been fun if it worked.

New comment by zhainya in "The Classic American Diner"

zhainya — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:31:54 +0000

only 65 :)

New comment by zhainya in "I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver"

zhainya — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:55:17 +0000

Wouldn't the long-term cost be the reliance on "something else" that did the actual work?

New comment by zhainya in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

zhainya — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:13:58 +0000

I don't really understand the point of this project or how it demystifies anything. Click the browser demo and I get a generic AI chat screen. Is the readme the part that "demystifies" something? I feel like I am living in a bizarro world. Is this all AI? Are all the comments here from bots?

New comment by zhainya in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

zhainya — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:49:48 +0000

You took a job as a tech in order to learn about pest control business so you could build a SaaS platform? Do I understand that correctly? In the end you decided not to build a SaaS and started your own pest control company?

New comment by zhainya in "A History of My Homelab"

zhainya — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:29:16 +0000

Great article. Really well written.

New comment by zhainya in "Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming"

zhainya — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:45:56 +0000

Is this what the kids call "astroturfing"?

New comment by zhainya in "IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man"

zhainya — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:39:43 +0000

Everything about this design feels wrong. Like they went out of their way to make it unappealing.

New comment by zhainya in "The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)"

zhainya — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:42:15 +0000

Was there supposed to be a connection to AI?

New comment by zhainya in "Mathematics Discovering Its Consciousness: Lasso Estimator as Cosmic Backdoor"

zhainya — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:21:33 +0000

Articles like this make me feel bad. Many articles on HN do this to me, but ones like this in particular. I can sense the author's excitement, and everything sounds so profound, yet I have no clue what any of it actually means. The worst part is, even if it was ELI5, I'm fairly sure I'd still be lost. I guess I'll just go eat more Pop Tarts.

New comment by zhainya in "SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V"

zhainya — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:32:47 +0000

Video demo would be amazing.

New comment by zhainya in "Purposeful animations"

zhainya — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:59:21 +0000

No, you're not.

New comment by zhainya in "I'm absolutely right"

zhainya — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:26:53 +0000

This is perfect!

New comment by zhainya in "Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem"

zhainya — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:04:51 +0000

I feel like I missed a whole section somewhere. "Built a toy TPU". What does that mean? I have no idea what was actually "built" here.

New comment by zhainya in "Catalog of Novel Operating Systems"

zhainya — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:20:26 +0000

TempleOS?